Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity

Recent Trends in Local-Scale Marine Biodiversity Reflect Community Structure and Human Impacts

(2015) Robin Elahi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Historical legacies accumulate to shape future biodiversity in an era of rapid global change

(2015) Franz Essl et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

(2015) Nicolas Mouquet et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community

(2015) Susan P. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass extinction in poorly known taxa

(2015) Claire Régnier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The field guide, rebooted

(2015) G. R. Goldsmith   SCIENCE

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity

(2015) Stuart L. Pimm et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Delayed biodiversity change: no time to waste

(2015) Franz Essl et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

(2014) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity

(2014) Michael T. Burrows et al.   NATURE

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

(2014) M. F. J. Aronson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Overlooked local biodiversity loss

(2014) B. Cardinale   SCIENCE

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Towards a unified descriptive theory for spatial ecology: predicting biodiversity patterns across spatial scales

(2014) Sandro Azaele et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

(2014) Lawrence N. Hudson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Anthropocene could raise biological diversity

(2013) Chris D. Thomas   NATURE

Species-fragmented area relationship

(2013) I. Hanski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

(2013) M. Vellend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant invasions and extinction debts

(2013) B. Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Europe's other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions

(2013) S. Dullinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

A meta-analysis of declines in local species richness from human disturbances

(2013) Grace E. P. Murphy et al.   Ecology and Evolution

All Is Not Loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2012) Erle C. Ellis et al.   PLoS One

Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Species Gains and Losses

(2011) D. A. Wardle et al.   SCIENCE

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Meta-analyses and mega-mistakes: calling time on meta-analysis of the species richness–productivity relationship

(2010) Robert J. Whittaker   ECOLOGY

The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years

(2010) Kees Klein Goldewijk et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Meta-analysis of repeated measures study designs

(2010) Jaime L. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

(2010) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   NATURE

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Recovery of Damaged Ecosystems

(2009) Holly P. Jones et al.   PLoS One

Enhancement of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by Ecological Restoration: A Meta-Analysis

(2009) J. M. R. Benayas et al.   SCIENCE

Measuring community responses to large-scale disturbance in conservation biogeography

(2008) Vincent Devictor et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

ECOLOGY: Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System

(2008) R. J. Scholes et al.   SCIENCE

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT